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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 300+ sessions below on our online schedule. Please note: bookmarking a session on our online schedule does not guarantee you a place in the session. All sessions are first come, first serve.

We offer a sliding scale registration rate so that the conference can be accessible to as many people as possible. Please support the AMC by giving generously with your registration contribution. Register here.

Khahlia

Artist / Educator / Student
Ohio

I am excited to attend the 2020 AMC! I am always open for virtual hugs, virtual convos over a meal, and anything dealing with black women & femmes, paper crafts/bookbinding, and writing letters! Looking forward to connecting with you and witnessing your fun & brilliance at AMC!

11:00am EDT

Black Touch STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Angela Davis Johnson • nyx zierhut Kinetic Knowledge Through African Dance STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Ajara Alghali • Whitney Smith Oracles: Divination Practice & Portrait-Making STATE HALL: Room 128Sophia Nahli Allison • Diana Diroy • Ligaiya Romero Repetition Is Sacred: Group Poetry as Ceremony for Change STATE HALL: Room 134Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace)

12:45pm EDT

Wakanda Foreva, eva? Black Folks at AMC! STATE HALL: Room 113Tawana Petty (she/her) • Moya Bailey • Nandi

2:00pm EDT

Reclaim Tarot within Communities of Color STATE HALL: Room 128Casey Rocheteau • Jana Lynne Umipig Stitches of Love Crochet and Knitting Circle STATE HALL: Room 135Mayte Penman • DiVine Smith

4:00pm EDT

Imagination as a Research Tool STATE HALL: Room 116Nina Bhattacharya • Payal Kumar Transforming the Family Album into a Tool for Social Change STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BThomas Allen Harris DIY video making STATE HALL: Room 114Makhno's Ghost • Djab Maroon • Tierra Morena

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

7:30pm EDT

I-Collective at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

9:00am EDT

Shaping Data, Shaping Power Community Arts AuditoriumSasha Costanza-Chock • Tawana Petty (she/her) • Ruha Benjamin • Mona Chalabi • Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler

11:00am EDT

Black Futures: Monetizing the Scam STATE HALL: Room 127McKensie Mack • Elijah McKinnon Fire: A Transformation Oracle STATE HALL: Room 128Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) Healing Justice Lineages: A History Discussion STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAutumn Brown • Adela Nieves Martinez • Cara Page • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • Rico • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis Designing Possibilities for the Wellbeing of Black Women STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BDenise Shanté Brown • N'Deye Diakhate

12:45pm EDT

Finding Yourself in the Break: Lessons in Black Jazz Meditation STUDENT CENTER: 020NIcole Campbell Sustainable Sisterhood: Two Founders Share Stories and Skills STATE HALL: Room 116Dail Chambers • Chinyere E. Oteh

4:00pm EDT

Lifting as They Climbed: A Tour of Chicago Black Women Histories STATE HALL: Room 125Mariame Kaba • Essence McDowell • Kierra Verdun Maroon Oracle Network and Decolonizing Digital Spaces STATE HALL: Room 114Nasah Kiam Crockett • P. Gabrielle Foreman • Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Vanessa Holden • Jessica Marie Johnson

8:00pm EDT

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCADBeige • K-HAND • Le1f • Oshun • Vespre • Miz Korona and the Korona Effect • Stacey HOTTWAXX Hale • Los Hermanos • DJ Pia

10:00am EDT

Altars: Rituals and Creation STATE HALL: Room 134olaronke akinmowo Invasive Papermaking for Everyone MCGREGOR: Room JMeg Heeres An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown

1:00pm EDT

First Response for Gunshots and Asthma STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Martine Caverl • Ana Lily Mccullom • Amika Tendaji Practical Magic: Lunar Ritual for Manifestation MCGREGOR: Room CCarmen Mayes Whose Story Is It? De-colonizing Documentary Practice STATE HALL: Room 106Bryan Bello • Sonya Childress • Maori Holmes • Nehad Khader • Michael Premo • Set Hernandez Rongkilyo

3:00pm EDT

Performing New Worlds Plenary and Closing Ceremony Celebration Community Arts AuditoriumUna Aya Osato • Ricardo Gamboa • Xandra Ibarra • Francesca Fiorentini

4:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium

6:00pm EDT

The Free Brunch Program OFFSITECharlyn Griffith/ Pronoun they or Honey • Asadullah Saed